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VESTAL, N.Y. — Freshman forward Kennedy Yearby scored in the 76th minute and senior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney made one of her two saves in the dying moments of the second half to preserve the women's soccer team's 1-0 win over Binghamton on Sunday at Bearcats Sports Complex.
 
The play leading up to Yearby's first collegiate goal started with a free kick just inside the left touch line about 40 yards from the Binghamton goal. Senior defender Kailey Joyce floated a long ball into the box that junior midfielder Whitney Farber was first to. Her header beat the goalkeeper, but bounced off the near post. The ball caromed straight back out, and Yearby swooped in to tap it into the net.
 
While it wasn't a deluge of goals, Yearby's strike effectively ended the anxiety of the Big Red's recent scoring drought of 377 minutes, 4 seconds. But the anxiety of holding on to the lead late culminating in a pair of Binghamton corner kicks in the final 30 seconds. The first came from Tierney's left and led to a shot from Hannah Shankman inside the 18-yard box that Tierney was able to tip wide of the near post with just 13 seconds left. The Bearcats then frantically tried to set up a corner kick from the opposite side, but junior midfielder Kaylee Fitzgerald headed the ball away as the final horn sounded.
 
Cornell (3-4) once again enjoyed a territorial advantage in the game, lead in shots, 13-5, shots on target, 7-2, and corner kicks, 8-4. The win snapped the Big Red's four-game losing streak heading into its Ivy League debut at 7 p.m. Friday against Columbia at Fairleigh Dickinson's campus in Teaneck, N.J.